Von Worley writes for Data Pointed — online at www.datapointed.net — which serves as a home for his "data visualization research; a journal of interesting information
imagery and news from around the world; and a place where you can spend a
few minutes, have a laugh or two, and discover something new."

He's produced some interesting graphics, including the map linked and pictured above, a similar map for McDonald's locations in the U.K. and an interesting list of pros and cons of different ways to store $1 million
($1 million worth of gasoline, for instance, is roughly equivalent to
270,000 gallons, while $1 million worth of vodka is roughly equivalent
to 1.8 million shots).

The U.S. map linked and pictured above was constructed in 2009 after Von Worley asked himself, "Just how far away can you get from our world of generic convenience? And how would you figure that out?"

"As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead," he writes in his blog post featuring the map. "To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there's no better barometer than McDonald's — ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide."

Using information from data collection site AggData — online at www.aggdata.com — he set out to determine the farthest point from a McDonald's location in the lower 48 states, eventually producing his map, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald's.

For more from Von Worley, including a larger image of the U.S. map and some of his personal interpretations of the map, visit his site through the links above.